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Old 02-08-2012, 01:52 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I always thought the war was about self determination of the slave states and slavery just happened to be one of the issues involved. I know a number of slave states actually stayed with the Union and other like Kentucky and Kansas etc were undecided.
There's only one slave state that I'm aware of that stayed with Union, and the only reason it did so was because the federal government clamped down on it before it could secede.
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